"Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death."

-- Mary Oliver

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“Iâ€™ve never used music to sell my faith and Iâ€™ve never used faith to sell my music. I think they are both intrinsic parts of who I am. Weâ€™ve always tried to define our music outside of genresâ€¦what is a genre? A genreâ€™s a cage or a box and for us our music is best with fangs and some claws running free in the wild.”
“Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.”
“I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.”
“History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization about this may lead us to a defence position that conceals that democracy is an extraordinarily demanding way of rule. It must constantly find new ways to revitalize, to reach out to people and make them active. Dictatorships offers a machinery of obedience, closed and externally well-oiled. Democracy is based on fairness, openness and pulsating life. Therefore it must constantly be won again.”
“Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?”

Source : Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers
“I went down and spoke to some of the people who lived in the neighborhood in Miami. At the end of the day I think my connection with Tarell [Alvin McCraney] is what helped me the most.”

Source : Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. November 4, 2016.
“Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic.”
“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”

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